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Talk by Donna Tumminello,
Assistant Director of the Stony Brook Technology Licensing Office. Title: "Intellectual Property
Protection and Commercialization" Donna's talk will feature "How-To"
on protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) , valuation of
IPR and capitalizing on IPR. Elements of a license agreement will
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Talk by John Pyrovolakis,
who founded Collegescape out of the 1996
MIT $50K Entrepreneurship
Competition. Title: "How
to Create a Successful Start-up as a University Student" Mr. Pyrovolakis
was a triple major in math, computer science, and philosophy at
NYU, and proceeded to MIT for his doctorate in linguistics and philosophy.
At NYU, Mr. Pyrovolakis was the first undergraduate teaching assistant
in logic, and won the school writing contest and the Solomonowitz
prize (twice) for scholarship in philosophy. At MIT, Mr. Pyrovolakis
worked in the Ontic group (Ontic
is an automated theorem proving language), and was a teaching fellow.
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December 3, 2004 Seminar by Edward Fritz and Gloria Glowacki, Stony Brook Small Business Development Center. Title "Elements of Business Planning" Edward Fritz, Center Director, has been a manager for over 30 years in both municipal government and the financial community. He has also been a business professor at various Long Island colleges. Having served previously as Business Advisor at the Stony Brook Small Business Development Center, he is very knowledgeable of the role the Center plays in Long Island's economy.
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February 11, 2005 Seminar by John Z. Rigos, Five Points Partners. Title: "Timing and the Entrepreneur: Lessons from Some Personal Experiences" John Z. Rigos has spent much of the past ten years conceiving, growing and advising start-up businesses in various industries. At present, Mr. Rigos is a managing partner in Five Points Partners, a private equity firm focused on developing, purchasing, and operating quick service multi-unit restaurant franchises Before joining Five Points Partners, Mr. Rigos was providing strategic advisory services to several established and start-up companies including Emcore Corporation, (NASDAQ: EMKR), developer and manufacturer of compound semiconductor products for advanced global communications and solid-state lighting applications, and Joltage, an infrastructure services business devoted to building-out a global network of WiFi hotspots. Mr. Rigos graduated cum
laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A.
in Economics in 1989 and from INSEAD, with Dean’s List Honors,
with a Masters degree in Business Administration in 1996. He started
his business carrier as an investment banker with Prudential-Bache
Capital Funding and Jesup & Lamont Capital Markets.
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May 23, 2005 E-Team Competition The Technology Entrepreneurial Team (E-Team) Competition will take place in conjunction with the Stony Brook DARE Competition. E-Teams are groups of graduate and undergraduate students and mentoring faculty who join together to develop an idea, product, or invention that will generate economic and social benefits. In the Sensor Consortium program, each team consists of one undergraduate student from each of our four Education Partnersled by a Stony Brook graduate student and supervised by a Stony Brook faculty. This year there will be four E-Teams competing for the best project. The projects will be evaluated and ranked by the members of the Consortium Advisory Board on the basis of their business, societal and technical impact. |